Thanks for giving it a whirl @michalmuskala
With regards to your questions:
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We are in the process of enabling new topics via email (we just need to determine which sections we want to enable this for). Which sections do you suggest? Currently we are thinking of enabling this for #elixir-questions and #elixir-chat and #phoenix-forum. When enabled you will be able to create new threads simply by sending an email to the relevant email address, e.g., elixirquestions@elixirforumd.com from the email address associated with your account.
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I’m glad you have raised this as this is something we have thought about, not just in terms of the forum but for the wider Elixir community via an external app. However since we have not started on that yet we could accommodate this on the forum via any of the following:
- You could start a new thread for any announcements you want to make, and either add [ANN] in the subject heading and/or use an libraries announcement tag that we could create here.
- We could create a libraries announcements thread where all such announcements could go, such as the ones we have for blog posts.
Currently with regards to blog posts, we are letting the community decide whether they want to create a dedicated thread, or to post it in the blog posts thread. The most notable difference apart from it being a dedicated thread, is that new threads also get tweeted via our Twitter account.
With that said we are actually completely open on this and will try to accommodate your needs best we can. What do you suggest is the best way forward? We could always create a feedback thread about this to see what everyone else thinks too.